From fellowship pilot to continuing research
From fellowship pilot to continuing research
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SNIP began during the 2025 UNESCO WHIPIC Fellowship as a methodological experiment in connecting attributable participant narratives to digitally documented built heritage.
After the fellowship, the research returned with me to Bangladesh. Its first public academic discussion took place at the Department of Architecture, BUET, through the Heritage Talk series organised by Heritence_BUET.
The lecture, Heritage Beyond Singularity: Interpretation, Authority, and the Production of Plural Meanings in Built Heritage, placed the pilot back within architectural discourse. The central issue was no longer simply whether a digital environment could contain multiple accounts, but what it means for architectural and heritage research to recognise forms of knowledge that do not fit easily within a single authorised interpretation.
Heritage Talk_HT01, Session 01
Heritage Talk_HT01, Session 01
Heritage Beyond Singularity
Heritage Beyond Singularity
Interpretation, Authority, and the Production of Plural Meanings in Built Heritage
Interpretation, Authority, and the Production of Plural Meanings in Built Heritage
Date
21 January 2026
Venue
Department of Architecture, BUET
Speaker
Imamur Hossain
At the Department of Architecture, BUET, my alma mater, the discussion allowed SNIP to move from fellowship reflection into architectural pedagogy and public discourse. It was a moment of return, from Korean field encounters to the intellectual environment where my own architectural training began. The lecture therefore did not simply report what I learned at WHIPIC. It asked whether architectural knowledge itself can be reoriented toward listening, plurality, and the careful holding of meanings that do not easily merge.
The central concern remained unresolved, deliberately so. Can a heritage system hold multiple meanings without reducing them into one authorised story?
SNIP does not answer this by celebrating plurality in an abstract way. It asks how plurality can be organised, attributed, spatialised, and made accessible without being flattened. The BUET lecture marked the first step in testing that question beyond the fellowship, within the architectural community that must also confront its own habits of singularity.
WHAT CHANGED AFTER THE PILOT
WHAT CHANGED AFTER THE PILOT
The fellowship clarified what SNIP could do and what it could not. It could retain attribution, make disagreement visible, connect narratives to spatial evidence and provide routes for review and correction.
It did not, however, resolve who defines the research question, who designs the interpretive structure, or what standing community-situated claims acquire once they encounter formal heritage institutions.
Those unresolved questions now form the intellectual continuation of the work.
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